Star 30 GB Zune Going Kaplunk!
Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 31st Dec 2008 17:12 UTC
Bugs & Viruses "Judgment day has arrived for owners of 30GB (and only 30GB) Zunes. The music player inexplicably entered a worldwide coma last night, and players are completely non responsive." [Kroc: I wonder if this is anything like the bug that caused Windows 98 to crash after 49 days when the tick-count exceeded 32-bits :P]
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RE[4]: Sabatoge?
by Noremacam on Wed 31st Dec 2008 23:23 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Sabatoge?"
Noremacam
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2006-03-08

It's likely that a developer somewhere in Redmond forgot to account for a leap year in some esoteric portion of firmware code, and the system choked upon discovering a 366th day in a 365-day year.

Not a nefarious conspiracy, just poor QA, and a clusterfsck overall. ;)


See that was my first assumption, but that still leaves the question open of why just the 30GB model?

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